Dr Simon Ellis
Dr Simon Ellis works as a freelance consultant providing training and support to schools and other educational settings on behaviour for learning. He originally trained and taught as primary teacher and has experience of working as a Special Educational Needs (SEN) coordinator.
Before becoming a consultant, he was a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education at Canterbury Christ Church University in the United Kingdom, where he taught on the Master’s in Education programme and the National Award for Special Educational Needs Coordination course, as well as contributing regularly to a range of the university’s teacher education programmes. He has also worked as a specialist local and national consultant on behaviour and attendance.
Simon’s doctoral thesis focused on the development of beginning teachers’ thinking and practice in relation to pupil behaviour. He has co-authored three books on Behaviour for Learning (Ellis and Tod, 2009, 2015. 2018).
Dr Izabela Zych
Dr Izabela Zych is an Associate Professor in Psychology in the University of Cordoba in Spain. She is a Visiting Scholar in the Institute of Criminology, Cambridge University and a member of Wolfson College, Cambridge University. She is a member of the LAECOVI research team at the University of Cordoba and an affiliated member of the Violence Research Centre, University of Cambridge.
Her main research interest focuses on antisocial behaviour, bullying and cyberbullying, with particular attention to personal and contextual risk and protective factors. She has directed different research projects mostly focused on the prevention of antisocial behaviour online and offline. She has been an invited speaker at international conferences across the world and published dozens of journal articles related to bullying, cyberbullying and related topics in high impact journals. Her postgraduate and undergraduate teaching and PhD supervision are mostly related to youth violence.
Izabela has been listed among the top world scientists in the 2020 Stanford Ranking of researchers. She is a consultant for Cambridge.
Hilary Cremin
Hilary Cremin, a research professor at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, where she works in the areas of education, peace and conflict. Her research and publication draw on embodied, poetic, and arts-based research methodologies such as autoethnography and photo voice. With her graduate students, she chairs the Cambridge Peace Education Research Group which investigates education in settings affected by armed conflict, as well as those affected by more indirect structural and cultural violence. Her research focuses on both positive responses to conflict and violence in schools (for example restorative approaches and peer mediation) and on reimaging education as a beautiful, creative and dynamic process more generally. She is currently working on a book about rewilding education. She has worked in the public, private and voluntary sector as a schoolteacher, educational consultant, project coordinator and academic. Her latest book with Terence Bevington is Positive Peace in Schools: Tackling Conflict and Creating a Culture of Peace in the Classroom, published by Routledge. View Hilary Cremin's university profile.